Astronomer Jane Green explains about an exploding star, some facts about getting closer to finding ET (Alien Life Forms) and just what it was that got her into astronomy in the first place.

In this month’s Spotlight Crawley Parveen Khan talks about events coming up in Crawley during  May including The Ifield Mayfayre, A Flavour of Steampunk, STEM in the Park, Crawley Festival BACKstage, and the Rah Rah Theatre’s production of The Teddy Bear’s Picnic.

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Paul Simmons, talked about his life as an artist, his painting group Greensand Artists and an exhibition taking place at Reigate Town Hall on Saturday 27th March.

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Radio gardener Jean Griffin talked about some of the things to do in a soggy April garden including pruning your fig trees, looking after your box hedge plants and getting those first couple of lawn mowings done.

Astronomer, Jane Green, spoke about the Spring Equinox, the planet Mercury which is currently the furthest it gets from the Sun ‘greatest elongation’ and how to spot it at low elevation in the Sky and 2 Comets the first of which is  Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks begins this month north of the Great Square of Pegasus, pass by Earth, though not visible to the naked eye.